Aussie slept through fire evacuation

Shooter Warren Potent slept through a fire evacuation of Australia's Olympic building which has forced a revamp of emergency plans.

Potent was oblivious to the fire in the basement of Australia's residence at the athletes' village, which team hierarchy believe was started by a cigarette tossed into piles of rubbish by a local worker.

Fire alarms had been deactivated at the time of Friday's fire, and Potent says he wasn't woken by door-knocking or phone calls to evacuate.